100sft DIY Passive Solar Water Heater Innovation with Black Pipe for Home Heating Complete Video

We have almost concluded the series of experiments with bigger innovative absorber panel for home heating innovation DIY. The innovative black pipe absorber panel shall reduce the cost of home heating to a bare minimum. Our trail work with this immensely large panel 100 sft with 100m black pipe roll is finished. We have observed dramatic improvement on efficiency with the larger panel almost equal to the normal GI pipe and plate solar with 3/4 of the panel size. The gain was almost 33c form lowest ambient air temperature of 2.8C . This is our 3rd day of experiment with approximately 3 hours of good sunshine in Kathmandu Jan-16 2012. And we are very happy to make the announcement for our future runs and improvements on the insulation of the panel and other things. This would be a big milestone on the very simple DIY innovation with black pipe. We shall publish other relevant details as soon as possible…with the comparative chart of temperature gain with normal plate solar of 3/4 panel size with same storage capacity in a week time. We are taking advantage of the coldest time of the year to really know the merits of this work for everyone benefit. We are really encouraged by the results of its performance. We have found manifold efficiency from our earlier circular panel of smaller dimensions. We are sure this shall help to conserve energy to the extreme at every ones yard with few pennies. We shall have one illustrative meeting with Nepal Travelers association in a week

Home Heating Innovation Passive Solar DIY Part 3

This is a part of series with our home heating innovation DIY. The innovative black pipe absorber panel shall reduce the cost of home heating to a bare minimum. Our trial works for the solar heat collector and distribution system is almost complete. But this time we have increased the absorber panel size to 100 sft instead of usual 6′ dia panel, which is almost approximately 4 times more. We shall publish other relevant details as soon as possible…but this one includes some on site modification for better performance. We are sure this shall help conserve energy to the extreme, truely a friendly DIY item for so many around the globe. This work is an elaboration of our GE ecomagination entry challenge.ecomagination.com Highly illustrative Plastic Barrel solar video our latest posting www.youtube.com

Passive Solar Innovation Trails DIY Part 2

This is a part of series with our home heating innovation DIY. The innovative black pipe absorber panel shall reduce the cost of home heating to a bare minimum. Our trial works for the solar heat collector and distribution system is almost complete. We shall publish other relevant details as soon as possible. The unique heat dissipating unit for the house interior in itself is also big innovation complete with black pipe and aluminium foil. We are sure this shall help conserve energy to the extreme a friendly DIY item for so many around the globe. We thought addition of aluminium foil with black topping may enhance its heat absorption capacity to a large extent, unfortunately it did not work that well. May be the linear flow of the heat in the foil juxtaposed the spiral flow of the liquid in the pipe tubing. The moderate solar gain was there, but it was far lesser then the optimum gain of say 30-35C in our usual system.

Meet Narok’s unique solar engineers

Posted November 14th, 2011 by ahand and filed in Solar power
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www.ntv.co.ke In Narok,a group of engineers of a very different kinds have just landed and they are literally lighting up the manyattas. The five grandmothers were trained in India on basic solar lighting solutions and now they are beginning to prove their mettle. NTV’s Francis Mutegi caught with the village engineers.

Champions of Change: Make It in America

Champion of Change event honors ordinary Americans who are doing extraordinary things in their communities to out innovate, out educate, and out build the rest of the world. November 3, 2011.

EMC Solar – Energy Made Clean

www.emcsolar.com.au A company developing a system that allows the Suns energy to be stored during the day, and to be able to generate electricity at night. Proudly produced in association with http

Venture Capitalists Don’t Understand Solar Energy

Posted March 19th, 2010 by ahand and filed in Solar power
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IT and bio-tech vcs struggle to evaluate clean technology. Watch more here: www.businessinsider.com